In the first post on this topic by dbeardsl I posted that I had a hot start problem and traced it back to my ignition switch. I replaced the switch today and took the old one apart. It's amazing that it worked at all. The top photo shows the lower part on the switch on the left and the upper section to the right. The red arrow on the left is the fixed contact where all power comes into the switch. The red arrow to the right is the matching spring loaded contact on the part that rotates with the key. The green arrows are the rotating wipers that make contact with the fixed terminals ( 15, 50 & X ) in the lower half. A lot of the original grease remained but had turned black from arcing inside the switch. None of the contacts were clean and shiny, I had to clean the grease from the lower part before I could see them at all. The lower photo shows a cleaned up bottom section, the center contact is visibly burned, the pen points to the starter contact with the 15 and X contacts to the right and above it. Considering the power that goes through this switch, the terminals and contact area seems awfully small. Makes a good argument for relays to the handle high current things.
dbeardsl: on the seat belt relay there are two real heavy yellow (sometimes yellow w/ red) wires. These can be cut and spliced to bypass the relay.
Original solenoid post started by dbeardsl:
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Ed Morrow
'72 914 1.7 w/single carb
'74 914 1.8 turbocharged CIS